Word: gayne
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Manchurian-born Mark Julius Gayn, 37, free-lance journalist specializing in Asiatic affairs...
...secret" had been disappearing from the State Department and other Government agencies-War, Navy, OWI, the Federal Communications Commission, and the supersecret Office of Strategic Services. Material from some of the documents had appeared in Amerasia (which had used one OSS report verbatim) and in Free-Lance Gayn's articles in Col lier's and the Saturday Evening Post. Some of the documents, said J. Edgar Hoover, had been found in the possession of those arrested...
...Manhattan, Writer Gayn, who has also written for the Washington Post, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Newsweek and (for a brief period) TIME, freely admitted that he had used Government reports as background for his articles. He added that all had been cleared by censorship...
Chiang's supreme test, says Author Gayn, will come when Japan is defeated and stripped of her empire - an undertaking that may not be concluded until 1948 or 1949. Then Chiang will rule "New China" - a nation that confidently sees herself as the future "mistress of Asia." But neither Japan's defeat nor a vast in crement of territory will solve China's domestic problems. Four out of five Chi nese depend upon the soil they till. Of China's 360,000,000 farmers, 200,000,000 do not own the land they cultivate; only...
Wealthy absentee landlords - often in ca hoots with local warlords and bandits -have reduced China's millions to a primitive struggle for a daily bowl of rice. The measure of Chiang's greatness, says Gayn, of his rise in stature from warlord to national leader, will be his readiness to take up the struggle against his old confreres - the political bosses and the land lords. "If [he] succeeds he will truly be come one of the world's great figures...